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Definition of Skying
1. sky [v] - See also: sky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skying
Literary usage of Skying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roger of Wendover's Flowers of History: Comprising the History of England by Roger, Matthew Paris (1849)
"The troops obeyed the king's commands, attacked the gates, forced their way into
the city, and, after skying many of the French, they, with the king at ..."
2. Synonyms of the New Testament by Richard Chenevix Trench, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1906)
"Paul is not therefore, as so many understand him, condescending here to human
infirmity, and skying, ' Your anger shall not be imputed to you as a sin, ..."
3. Gleanings from the Harvest-fields of Literature, Science and Art: A Melange by Charles Carroll Bombaugh (1860)
"... skying. Long I looked into tho sky, Sky aglow with gleaming stars, Stars that
stream their ... skying."
4. Gleanings from the Harvest Fields of Literature: A Melange of Excerpta by Charles Carroll Bombaugh (1860)
"Max TRYING skying. Long I looked into the sky, Sky aglow with gleaming stars,
Stars that stream their courses high ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"He must breathe the fresh air when he g-oes skying; for there is a wonderful
difference between the smoke-dried wool-bag« over a country full of ..."
6. The Life of J.M.W. Turner, R.A.: Founded on Letters and Papers Furnished by by Walter Thornbury (1897)
"Betty J tell your mistress, if anyone calls, I can't be seen—I'm skying. Betty!
... She might have known that I was skying."1 At a late exhibition of early ..."